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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3188, 29 November 1892, Page 2

"We hear on good authority that Mr Barton has been appointed clerk and collector to the Matamata Road BoarcV We hear that Mr B. Murray's tenders for Lots 3 and 4, titree cutting at Woodside, have been accepted. All the tenders for Lots 1 and 2, were considered too high, so none were accepted. The sale of the racing pony Grace D,irling that was advertised to take place yesterday at Whatawhata did not come off, the judgment in tho case Esh v. Lawson having been satisfied, the amount being paid under protest. The burgesses of Hamilton will to-morrow be called upon to elect a Mayor for the ensuing twelve months. There are two candidates for their suffrages, Messrs John Parr and R. F. Sandes, addiesses from both of whom appear in our advertising columns. We remind our readers that Mr W. J. Hunter's special sale of horses will be held in tho Hamilton Borough Yards. When the entries comprise nearly 300 horses.inclnding animals of all descriptions, and persons requiring any kind of stock cannot fail to get suited at this sale. It is officially notified in our advertising columns that the publico trustee is the administrator in the estate of the late, John Lowe, of Cambridge—and persons indebted to, or having claims against the estate are requested to forward them to Auckland on or before the 28th of January. At the St. John's College sports, held at the Domain, Auckland, on Friday, we are pleased to notice that our young friend Willie Hume is keeping up the reputation of the family. He won the 220 yds. Flat Race and the Half-mile Race, and was third in the School Handicap Quarter-mile. The encampment at Whatawhata for six days' drill of the Waikato Mounted Infantry commenced yesterday. About forty men turned up, and further additions to the strength were expected to arrive during the day. The continued unfavourable weather for carrying on shearing operations will be sure to prevent many of the members attending. At the Hamilton Auction Mart on Saturday last, Mr John Knox offered for sale the lease of several allotments, on behalf of the Hamilton Domain Board. Lot 3C>, Hamilton East, was paused in at the upset price without eliciting a bid. Lots 15(>, 157, and 158, East (4 acres (i perches) fell to Mr Bunting at 12s per acre ppr annum ; and lots 102, 103, and 104, East (3 acres), to Mr Cassidy, at 12s (id per acre per annum. The lease of the Lake Reserve, formerly held by Mr W. Cussen at a rental of £10 per annum, was secured by MrW. M. Hay, at £8 15s. We may remind local bodies and others who are troubled with uweet briars that tho season hasarrived when they should be dug out. The briars are now in flower, and some vety complete experiments have demonstrated that if dug out when in that state the plants are killed outright ; no fresh shoots sprir.g from the roots that are left. This is nn important matter, and we are pleased to hear that a great many land-owners and occupiers are now busy having the. hilars taken nnf. both upon their own livnd« and the roa Is adjoining

The Te Awamutu Mounted Rifles are now in encampment at Whatawhatn for their annual six (lays' drill. ' Mr E. T. Divey was the successful tenderer for supplying ration-*.

All the arrangements in conneclinn with the Waikato Trotting Club's Meeting to be held at Gwynnelands, Cambridge, to-morrow (Wednesday), aro in complete order. With fine weather a large attendance of the public mny certiiuly be reckoned upon. The wheel ir it will be a most interesting feature and new to most uf us in Waikato.

Mr Trengrouse, the English butter expert, considers the prospects of the butter market are of the very brightest character. Buyers, he says, are waiting for consignments, and the quantity sent is quite immaterial. A.s to quality, he advises that prime factory made should be sent, and urges producers to adopt a system uf branding the packages. (This is now compulsory.—Er>.) The largest demand, he points out, is in January and February.

Mr C. Harwood, of Hamilton, had a narrow escape from a serious accident yesterday morning. He was about to get into his dray by stepping off the wheel, when the horse —a young one—started off. Mr Harwood was knocked down, and the wheel passed over his lep, inflicting a severe cut, but luckily not breaking any boues. Dr. Brewis was immediately called in and attended to the injuries. We understand that Mr Harwood is likely to be confined to his room for some fortnight or so.

Commenting upon some of the legislation of the Ballance Government, the Melbourne " Argus "says :-•" We need not discuss such bills as that which provides that chairs must be provided for all shopgirls, or that grammar must be printed in certain type lost the eyesight of little boys should suffer from their Btudies. We only wonder that the Ballance Governmont does not introduce a Bill to regulate the size of the boots which are worn by the children, so that in the future they may not troubled with euros."

"Lady'' bill - improvers have been making money in Texai. Two young giris, of decent social position, have been arrested on a charf.e of altering the denominations of bank bills; They were in the habit of changing ten dollar into hundred dollar bills by adding a zero and ottering them in payment of small purchases at stores, receiving amounts varying from £'17 to £20 as change." They always went shopping late in the afternoon, when the imperfect light, aided by their general appearance, facilitated the success of their operations.

I learn from a correspndent, says "Civis " in the Otago Witness, that there's a fly in the ointment pot after all. He (the labour member) gets £240 a-year, paid monthly. So far so good. It is more than he could earn at his trade. But what about his trade? Is he to continue it or to leave it. The one coursa is as perilous as the other. If he abandons his bench, his constituents will say h« has grown too big for his boots. No longer working with his hands, he loses the chief qualification of a Labour member, and will probably be thrown overboard at the next general election. If he sticks to his bench he keeps as good a man as himself out of employment and pockets two sets of pay—an offence the working-man will never forgive. He ought to content himself with his honorarium and let other people live.

The Scotchman and the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch are waging war with Dr. Bamardo. The Scotchman prints long statements made by lads induced to leave Edinburgh for London, and subsequently turned out of the London Home, with threepence each, after being beaten with sticks and otherwise maltreated. The boys say they were beaten because they rebelled against rvigh treatment and solitary confinement metod out to them because they would not consent to emigrate to New Zealand 01 Canada. Of course the boys' statements may be exaggerated, but when an old, highly respectable and influential paper like the Scotchman condemns Dr. Barnardo, it is evident that there is need for the very strictest inquiry.

We have frequently met with young colonials engaged in the agricultural industry who grumble at not being able to get more than •' five bob a-day." We fancy they would alter their tune if they had a spell in the agricultural districts of the Old Country at the present time. We submit the following cutting from a late issue of an England paper. We may explain that the Wrm " coomb "is a local one, and synifies eight bushels of GOlbs each :—The farmers in tli6 Ely district have this week reduced, the wages of their agricultural labourers from 12s to lis per week, and it is reported that many farmers in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire declare their inability to keep their labourers during the coming winter. On some farms in the neighbourhood the yield of wheat this harvest has not been more than two coombs to the acre. There have been a few exceptions to this, and they appear to have been where the crops were sown in October or November.

The Pall Mall Gazette observes • —"' The twin curses of our ountry are poverty and drink,' said the president of the Trades Union Cougress in the course of his address. On the eve of ' the last great c'assic race of the season ' he might have added a third—namely, gambling. We have no desire to see the Trades Union Congress turned into an Exeter Hall meeticg, but if it comes to a discussion of work-ing-class morals it will never again be possible to omit the extraordinary spread of the betting mania during the last ten years. When the inner history of these times comes to be written, and an attempt is made to apportion the degrees of misery which have been caused by the various curses of our days, we are by no means sure that gambling will occupy the last place. Workingclass leaders have themselves contributed incalculably to the' temperance movement, and it is about time that they were up and moving on the subject of the betting craze. The Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Congress could do no harm if at least gave its views on the reform of the betting laws."

About two years ago a young man, resident of Parramatta, named Herbert Abel, came in for £4000 or £5000 by the death of a relative. In order to lend eclat to the stroke of good luck he entertained some hundreds of friends and their friends at a banquet on the most costly scale, at an expense of about £200. He afterwards journeyed to London, tikine a young fellow with him for company. When he returned, he took a party of young men on a trip to Bathnrst, and kept some of them there for six months in luxurious idleness. A certain hotel was his headquarters in Parramatta, and here he got through the balance of his money. The. other day he left Parramatta, and had to get a loan of his train fare. When he left, a orooch was missed from the landlord's bedroom, and a warrant was issued for tho young man's arrest. Recently he appeared at the Parramatta Court, and was fined £10 for the offence. Singular to relate, he was not altogether without friends in his adversity, and some of those who had enjoyed his hospitality subscribed the fine.